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YOUNG couple Kurt Spicer and Kiara McAvan were targeted by a genuinely weird phone-pest last year.

It started with a fake pizza order and weird calls but eventually became ridiculous.

Before long a plastering business turned up to give a quote, unwanted taxis arrived and a party hire company tried to deliver a jumping castle, 1000 balloons, a jukebox and a clown.

The situation soured when a Toowoomba pound worker came to put-down the couple's dog, after false reports it had parvovirus.

And those were just the tip of the iceberg...

Hoax phone calls:
Kiara McAvan and Kurt Spicer have been victims of goods being ordered using their name and number

Towering majesty

HAVE you noticed the stunning height of the Kitchener St palm tree?

Plenty of others have - a Facebook profile even exists for "stalwart supporter of this spectacular softwood spire".

As The Chronicle reported, fans even believed it produced coconuts whose milk had "superior thirst-quenching ability to Solo".

The Kitchener St palm tree is purported to be the tallest of its kind in Toowoomba.

Squirmy subject

CHRISTIE McCabe somehow managed to turn an interview with an earthworm into a free trip to the Olympics.

She filmed the unorthodox discussion with one of the zippy invertebrates from Crows Nest's Perseverance Cup worm race.

Once completed, she entered it into an international competition to find the world's best bloggers to report on the London Olympics.

And she won!

Film-maker Christie McCabe's interview with a worm could get her all the way to the London Olympics.Contributed

Bovine vandals

IN ONE of the strangest insurance claims to come from the Darling Downs in recent years, Junction View woman Abbie Veivers had to explain how two cows trashed her children's games room causing more than $10,000 worth of damage.

The two cows - a 500kg Ayrshire named Rosie and a 300kg Friesian named Pinky Willow - nudged open a door, which slammed shut behind them.

They were trapped overnight and were only discovered when Mrs Veivers noticed Pinky's massive tongue licking the window.